I can imagine photography geeks lamenting the explosion in amateur photography cheap point-and-shoot digital cameras has brought about. Flickr is filled with people who take pictures with cameras that (gasp!) are closed systems. You can’t swap lenses, can adjust the film stock, can’t even, in most cases, adjust the focus. According to Cory, because you can’t go into the guts of these cameras and mess around to “improve” them, you don’t really own them. Which is silly.

So it’s good to see posts like yours, which approach the “closedness” of the iPod from a tech geek perspective, while recognizing the boon such simple computing is for most everybody.

I believe I’ll take that as a compliment :-)

For some reason I always figured you as being a bit older than this…